OBITUARY. 
JOSEPH LISTER, M.B., F.R.C.S. (Eng.). 
We regret to announce that the Right Hon. Lord Lister, 
O.M., died from an attack of pneumonia on Saturday, Feb¬ 
ruary ii, at Walmer, in his eighty-fifth year, after an illness of 
four days. Joseph Lister was born at Upton, in Essex, in 1827, 
his father, Joseph Jackson Lister, F.R.S., being the inventor of 
the achromatic microscope. He was educated at a Quaker school 
in Tottenham, and in this connection it is interesting to note that 
LORD LISTER. 
the Prince of Wales’ General Hospital (then known as the Evan¬ 
gelical Protestant Deaconesses’ Institution, Tottenham, or the 
Tottenham Hospital) was the first hospital in London to apply 
the Listerian treatment. He had lived from childhood in an at¬ 
mosphere of scientific research, and began his studies on the medi¬ 
cal side of the college with unusual qualifications for pursuing 
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